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Too Much Power Lies in Tech Companies’ Hands

by Stephen Carter | Aug 27, 2017 | Opinion

The Daily Stormer is finally off the internet. Well, the public internet anyway. Earlier this week, the hate-spewing white supremacist site lost its domain name registration when it was kicked off first GoDaddy and then Google for violating terms of its contracts....

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Creating Truth is Assertion of Power

by Casey Williams | Apr 19, 2017 | Opinion

For decades, critical social scientists and humanists have chipped away at the idea of truth. We’ve deconstructed facts, insisted that knowledge is situated and denied the existence of objectivity. The bedrock claim of critical philosophy, going back to Kant, is...

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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. Reuters

Iran: Ahwaz Distressed City…Lawmakers Criticize Rouhani Government’s Negligence

by Adel al-Salmi | Feb 13, 2017 | World

London – A warning was sent to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday by 68 lawmakers for what they called negligence for Ahwaz’s conditions. The lawmakers called for the government to form a crisis cell and announce Ahwaz as a distressed city, especially...

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Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fire a rocket at Islamic State fighters in Sirte, Libya.

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Libyan Citizens Fall back on Coal, Wood for Warmth in Tripoli

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jan 28, 2017 | Middle East

Tripoli- Libya faces today a grand-scale power shortage, as its capital Tripoli drowns in darkness, many citizens resort to primitive ways for heat, light and daily activities. Charcoal and wood have been used to compensate for the 77 percent deficiency that the...

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Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahri speaks from an unknown location, in this still image taken from video uploaded on a social media website June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV

Zawahiri Strongly Criticizes Baghdadi

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Jan 7, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- Al-Qaeda Chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has targeted ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with severe accusations in a message that explicitly shows the continuous struggle between the two groups to prevail, according to an Egyptian report. Al-Qaeda and ISIS have always...